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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
... (Créations Re-créations Récréations) . Paris: Gallimard, 1973 . 23 -27. Mathews, Harry. Cigarettes . New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 . Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Philosophy of Composition.” Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews . Ed. G.R. Thompson. New York: Library of America, 1984 . 13...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... body, and composition. In Woolf’s and Musil’s breathing pauses, which are not located between the words, but rather constitute intervals filled with words, orality is shifted to the level of composition: a skillful arrangement of sound structures emphasizes the letters’ tonal nature and a harmonious...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... particularities of the time and place of the work's composition. What Auerbach famously called the “incomparable historical vantage point” of his exile in Istanbul, these critics argue, has inextricably shaped the contours of his work as a critic. This essay suggests that focusing on exile as Auerbach's most...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 June 2019
... languages by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, and “Lo ferm voler,” a sestina by Arnaut Daniel, are read as experimental compositions that promote the function of lyric forms to provide stability to the vernacular in a fluid oral context by communicating meaning in nondiscursive ways. The influence of these works...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
... that the audiobook’s insistence on the book is matched by its adherence to experiences of phantasmatic aural centeredness, the essay turns to ways in which the book’s materiality might inspire a reaffirmation of the interaural. Case studies include book alterations by Doug Beube and an electronic composition by Yannis...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 209–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... on their material composition. In these poems, the cliffs’ chalk—formed by fossilized marine microorganisms at a time when what would become Britain was at the bottom of a prehistoric sea—attests to Britain’s geohistorical contingency. Arnold, Auden, and Nagra use this chalk geology to develop a new model...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... into the future even as they revise the past. The visual archive of the plantation, then, as unvarying and stable as it may appear (Tara, say, or the Lyceum), is really a composite consisting of all the photographs and portraits of plantations produced and circulated for the past two centuries or so...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of reading a text or listening to a piece “as if” for the first time. Such an approach can refresh or enliven our understanding of a familiar work; it can also leave a difficult text or musical composition seeming stranger than before. Kripke's commentary on Wittgenstein and Taruskin's on Beethoven provide...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the fragmented cityscape as imbued with a complex, compositional logic of form and history ground, at once, the possibility of textual communicability and the preservation and transmission of memory—personal, collective, historical, and cultural. It is by virtue of this shared formal-historical logic...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... fatal flaw? Despite the innovations of its material structure and the best intentions of its advisory board, director, and curators, has the assertively “decolonizing” museum failed to recognize that Graham’s composite sculpture carries its own world form? 12 It is at this point in his analysis...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., in other words, that the dichotomy between oral improvisation and textual composition that has since the work of the early twentieth-century classicists Milman Parry and Albert Lord structured research on epic and other poetic genres is too rigid. Guided by early modern scholars, the romance in this way...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 197–214.
Published: 01 June 2002
...,
and Nabokov leads his reader to this crucial conclusion by using Gide’s literary
legacy as a subtext.
The evocation of Gide in Lolita is especially important in light of the striking
compositional, narrative, and thematic affinities between Nabokov’s earlier novel
The Gift (Dar, 1937) and Gide’s...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... this textual integrity as a potential ground for comparative analysis. In a discussion of literary texts created for the Cave three-dimensional virtual reality environment at Brown University, Cayley argues that, by radically altering our physical experience of reading, electronic compositions that depart from...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 312–327.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the circumstances of the book’s composition are well-
known: Auerbach, who was Jewish, was forced out of Germany in 1936, having
been dismissed from his professorship at the University of Marburg. He took up
a post at the University of Istanbul, and, at least in part, Mimesis was conceived as
an attempt...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to compositions, Cage continually
sought to break down barriers to reception and performance, hence his suggestion
that “language . . . can be enjoyed without being understood” (M: Writings 215). In
“Empty Words,” Cage aims to reflect chaotic and unstructured environmental
sounds through the use...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the rasas in literary texts, dance forms, and musical compositions. Given my focus on literature and reading, I refer to the audience as pāthak (reader) rather than darśak (spectator). Instead of a complete rejection of the modern in favor of a mythic indigenous past, I suggest that the traditions...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): i–xxxi.
Published: 01 June 2007
... not define its “literariness,” but it does trigger
different techniques of composition and reception. When we move from oral to written
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texts, we need fewer fixed epithets and repeated lines and phrases than an oral teller
would require to remember his story. Fixed, printed...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
... bāsham (how should I be?). For example, the second verse on “scattering rubies, sifting jewels, and raining pearls” promotes a metaphor for ghazal composition that will become fully canonized with Hafiz and his later interlocutors, as I will discuss below. Even the theme of separation and union explored...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 June 2018
... proposal (62) by distinguishing between systematization and traditional mechanism (57, 59). The former could be creative and productive, the latter “merely” repetitive. Saussy defines oral tradition as “a poetic technology marked by collective composition, modularity, iterability, and virtuality” (72...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
... a composite drawn from various sources, but also,
as I shall argue here, one of his models is Poussin’s allusive paintings.3 As an
the later Louvre version, I read the ambiguity as implicit in Poussin’s second version of “Et in Arcadia”
(Louvre). Elaborating on Panofsky, W.J.T. Mitchell points...
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